Category Archives: Daily News

Over the past two years since he became the Communications and Information Technology Minister, Ravi Shankar Prasad has cleared a lot of pending work in his Ministry, even though people termed him a ‘call drop Minister’. Prasad, who will be completing two years in office on May 26, shares withBusinessLine how the telecom, postal, IT…

Do you remember how many times you have clicked “I agree” on the never-ending ‘Terms and conditions’ list for various software downloads, signups and registrations without even scrolling down to the end? Even if you have survived doing that and you are not paranoid about online security, you ought to be more careful about something…

Rape is never just about sex. A high degree of violence frequently takes it from a physical and emotional offence straight to homicide. After the initial tch-tch and feelings of helplessness, there is a human tendency to justify such crimes. Rapes bring out the inner rapist in most people. When Nirbhaya suffered that brutal attack in the…

On Wednesday, Google India announced that five teenagers won the web contest conducted by the company on online safely, reported IANS. “The competition witnessed several entries from across schools in the form of sketches, videos and apps and were judged on creativity, reach and impact,” said Google India in a statement. The winners of the…

When any campaign finds it hard to bring about a conclusive answer to vexed issues, the people behind such a movement are overwhelmed by lethargy, especially if they are driven other than by moral urge. To many human rights activists in the Naga community, as it appears, yesterday’s campaign is a shibboleth today. However, the…

Tokyo: Information technology ministers of the G7 countries, during a meeting in Japan on Saturday, agreed to tackle the digital divide by bringing internet access to more people, and pushing for policies free of political censorship. The plan set out by the ministers of the G7 countries – Japan, the US, Germany, Britain, France, Canada…

Washington: Religious freedom in India was on a “negative trajectory” in 2015 as religious tolerance “deteriorated” and religious freedom violations “increased”, a US report on international religious freedom said on Tuesday. In its annual report, the Congress-mandated US Commission for International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) asked the Indian government to publicly rebuke officials and religious leaders…

MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A tablet-based application that helps to identify some of the poorest girls in eastern India has the potential to prevent human trafficking, early marriage and child labor, according to a charity which has developed the app. The GPower, or Girl Power, app developed by Accenture Labs and the charity Child…

CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Hundreds of people in southern India took to the streets on Tuesday to demand a fast investigation into the rape, murder and mutilation of a woman whose death has drawn comparisons with a 2012 gang rape that forced a change to the law. Indian police are looking for a…

Indore : By the end of this year, people of Indore district, particularly those living in panchayats, would be able to get high-speed internet and online services under e-Governance as laying of optical fiber cable (OFC) is going on at full tilt. In future, all 170 services, scheduled to be delivered online under e-Governance would…